The Brook - Break, Break, Break - Sweet and Low - and The Eagle
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- Publication date
- 2022-06-05
- Topics
- librivox, audiobooks, longing, hope, introspection, loss, classic poetry, nature's permanence
- Language
- English
LibriVox recording of The Brook - Break, Break, Break - Sweet and Low - and The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Read in English by Bruce Kachuk
These are four magnificent poems that speak of life, its tragedies, its loneliness, its dangers and its brevity in a superb juxtaposition with the enduring and unchanging character of the natural world. This unchanging character is illustrated by the endlessness of the flowing water of a brook, the ability of the "Wind of the western sea" to unite a family, or indeed the solace of callous indifference the sea can provide to someone experiencing a tragedy.
These are poems that depict relationships between mankind and the natural world in contrast but also in a marked and intricate interdependency. The essential theme of this collection - the permanence of nature over the transience of mankind's corporeal reality - is best summarized by Tennyson's memorable lines from "The Brook": "For men may come and men may go / But I go on for ever."
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk
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- Addeddate
- 2022-06-05 17:00:03
- Call number
- 18006
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1377781720
- Identifier
- brook_tennyson_2206_librivox
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- Ocr_detected_script
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- Ocr_parameters
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- Ppi
- 600
- Run time
- 00:06:31
- Year
- 2022
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